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Could be.

Actually, the best way to avoid living with your parents is to join the military, although I suspect some would count that as ‘the cure worse than the disease’.

Another major retailer in SF’s Union Square to close for good (S.F. Gate)

This Texas mom says she’s moving her family to California to protect her transgender daughter (CNN) I’ll be happy to chip in.

Why Biden should deliver a European history lesson during the State of the Union (Washington Post) Time to push the Narrative again.

More than 600 geographic sites across the US will be renamed, replacing a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for decades (CNN) Down the Memory Hole!

California’s Democratic Party set out to ban fossil fuel and police money. It didn’t really do either (S.F. Chronicle)

Why Is The Left Ignoring Ukrainian Gun Rights?

New York’s Governor Boosts Chinese Companies Under US Sanctions

MI6 Chief Faces Backlash For Saying Ukraine War Is About LGBT Rights

AZ Teacher Recorded Pushing Brave New Trans World

Nets Fretted Over ‘Staunch Conservative’ Court Choices, Skimp on Liberal Labels for Dem Picks

An Actual Psaki Show? CNN, MSNBC Jockeying to Poach White House Press Secretary  Riding along the revolving doooooooorrrrrr….

One of the Senate’s Richest Members Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Stock Trades  A Democrat of course.

Woke Medicine at the AMA

Tech Guru Who Worked With Clinton Campaign Pleaded the Fifth in Durham Probe

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The conventional wisdom is that ‘primitive’ societies, as they become more industrialized and affluent, will in turn come more and more to resemble the Enlightened West. Well, it ain’t necessarily so.

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During the early stages of the “pandemic”, I experienced instances of rationing in supermarkets. The most prominent examples were toilet paper, hand soap, and hand sanitizer, but rice, pasta, and other foodstuffs were also affected. The consumer was advised that there would be a limit on the number of each item that he could purchase on any given trip to the grocery store.

Last week I noticed the same thing with butter. Customers were told that they could only purchase one (or two) items of each butter product sold by the store.

Similar rationing has now appeared in Germany. According to the following report, the war in Ukraine will only make matters worse.

Confidence in California public schools declines sharply; a third give L.A. a D or F (L.A. Times)

Migration to California has plummeted — from every state. The decline was especially extreme for one region (S.F. Chronicle)

LA Is Spending Up To $837,000 Per Unit To House The Homeless

The Clinton Campaign’s Two-Pronged Plan To Create The Trump–Russia Collusion Narrative

LOL: NBC’s Mitchell Says ‘We’re Not Democrats, We’re Journalists’  But she repeats herself.

NPR Guides Triggered Liberals: How to Cope with ‘Stressful News Cycle’ of Ukraine War

Russia mistakenly posted post-war article about Ukraine joining Russia

Hundreds of people are living in NYC subway stations and tunnels, MTA says

Changing lives – and changing culture – through restorative justice (13WHAMTV) ‘Restorative’ justice? That’s a new one. What’s net, ‘reparational justice’?

Of the best states to live in, California is #48 (CBS)

University of Maryland’s Anti-Semitism Task Force Chief Has History of Anti-Semitic Statements

Look back in anger: Clinton dirty tricks edition

Gundlach Is Moving DoubleLine’s $134 Billion Money Management Arm To Florida, From California

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As they did in Afghanistan.

Steve Jobs’ heir reportedly eying Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco House seat (S.F. Gate)

Steve Jobs’ son Reed Jobs has no interest in Nancy Pelosi’s House seat: report

Moderate Democrats are still deluded about how to win (Washington Post)

Pack of robbers steal $500,000 in goods from NYC store Time to leave.

Facing climate and social justice crises, older people are getting back into the protest battle (Boston Globe)

Nets Skip Ukraine Expanding Gun Rights Before Invasion, Handing Out Guns

How Henry Cuellar Used Campaign Cash To Fund a Private Plane  What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

Patreon blocks Ukrainian volunteers charity account

Audiences Reject Woke Television: Many Leftist Shows Cancelled in 2022

MSNBC: Biden’s Deeply Liberal SCOTUS Pick Is ‘Middle of the Road’

The Gender Wage Gap: Fact or Fiction?

Hostin: Criticism of Biden SCOTUS Pick ‘Based on Race, Not on Qualifications’  When her primary qualification is her race, they are the same.

Putin Withdraws From Ukraine After Celebrities Threaten To Sing ‘Imagine’  Babylon Bee.

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It is hard not to be cynical about “the media” these days, especially if you work in it. Spend any significant amount of time reading newspapers and magazines, watching cable news, or following discussions on Twitter, and you notice that a great deal of what is written and broadcast has a drearily predictable quality. Indeed, discrete events seem almost irrelevant except insofar as they can be slotted into pre-existing storylines.

Take the debates surrounding the trucker protests in Ottawa. The mainstream press, by and large, has attempted to assimilate the protests into categories familiar from the Trump years.

According to Politico, “far-Right” truckers, some of them sporting “Confederate and Nazi flags”, have “wreaked havoc on Canadian cities”. In the Guardian, one writer warned that the “siege of Ottawa” was an “astroturfed movement funded by a global network of highly organised far-Right groups and amplified by Facebook’s misinformation machine.” Slate, after dropping the trigger words “militia”, “hate”, “extremist”, and “Nazi”, called the protests an “armed occupation of a G-7 capital”. All linked the truckers with the domestic threat posed by Fox News, the Republican Party, and the American far-Right.

San Francisco school board recall prompts media reckoning over woke weariness: ‘Progressivism gone wild’

Wauwatosa clerk finds unopened absentee ballots; race results could change (WISN Milwaukee) How … convenient.

Joe Biden’s Secret Constitutional Weapon (Politico)

Congress passed up inheritance taxes to fix wealth inequality (Washington Post)

‘We can’t make it rain’: California farmers left out to dry as US government allots no water (The Guardian)

A New Level of Transit Incompetence

UK Pushing To Kick Russia Out Of SWIFT, But Germany Says No

Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single homeless person

Murder Victim’s Mother Has Questions for One of Virginia’s Progressive Prosecutors

Mapping The De-‘Squaw’-ing Of America’s Derogatory Place Names

Joy Behar Frets Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Will Harm Her Vacation Plans

The Woke American Medical Association

Feminist Insists Abortion Is ‘Pro-Child’

“Mark It Zero”: UBS Triggers Margin Calls For Wealthy Clients By Calling Russian Bond Collateral Worthless

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To young people living in democracies, authoritarianism may seem like a long-forgotten part of their country’s history. For as long as they can remember, their fellow citizens have had the right to voice their opinion and to organize freely, political parties have competed in meaningful elections, and the legislature and courts have checked their governments’ actions.

But these experiences are far from universal. Many countries are not democracies; and almost all countries that are democratic are younger than a lifetime. This means that for most people, life under authoritarianism is either their current experience, or they remember a time when it was.

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What’s happening in Massachusetts mirrors a broader battle over who has the “right to repair” increasingly complex electronic products — from iPhones and farm tractors to the family car.

About 75% of Massachusetts voters sided with the auto repair industry in 2020 by passing a ballot initiative that’s supposed to allow car owners and their preferred auto shops to more easily peek into a car’s trove of online data. Automakers have been fighting it in court ever since.

And two of them, Subaru and Kia, said that rather than run afoul of the new law, they would disable their wireless “telematics” systems from new models in the state. Car buyers and dealerships have been feeling the effects.

The Hyundai system is called BlueLink and it allows one to do some amazing stuff. I don’t use even a third of it, but it’s nice knowing that they’re available. The ability to remotely start and de-ice the car is worth a lot in winter. This strikes me as just dog-in-the-manger attitude on the part of the manufacturers.

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As I got to know these people, I had many conversations during which I tried to advise them on how to avoid these difficult circumstances in the future. I was often surprised to discover that they already knew full well what it would take to avoid these circumstances in the future. But they had no intention at all of modifying their behavior for the simple reason that they preferred the inconvenience of arrest to the discipline of managing their own affairs.

And it wasn’t even a matter of the money. The modest payment plan for their traffic citations, which would have been acceptable to the city, could have often been funded for less than they spent in one week on cigarettes. To say nothing of the money they spent on weed.

It also wasn’t the case that they robotically went about their lives without an explicit point of view about their choices. They almost always had a very well-developed worldview that informed their choices and, more to the point, they were conscious of what it was and could readily articulate it.

Many people are criminals because they prefer to be criminals. They have a choice and they make it. Society is not to blame; their circumstances are not to blame; nothing extrinsic is to blame — they are.

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I could wax on about how bad things are going to be, or how we oughta this, and we oughta that. Yes, yes, I agree, academically.

But in reality, we aren’t going to do a damned thing, and that’s the best outcome we may realistically hope for. I’ve said since the first term of the Obama administration that we are no longer capable of doing things, because we are always just one election away from internal Marxist sabotage at the top. And now that the deep state shenanigans are plain for all to see, they are emboldened, rather than cowed by the sunlight.

It “Was Not Made To Be Housing” – NYC Mayor Unveils Crackdown On Homeless “Cancerous Sore” On Subway System

Canada Freedom Convoy: European Parliament member compares Trudeau to communist ‘dictator’

Idaho passes bill prohibiting so-called ‘ballot harvesting’ (The Hill)

Inside the High-Stakes Fight to Control the Narrative on Ukraine (The New Yorker)

It’s Time To Cancel Presidents Day (Politico)

Domestic Migration 2010-2020: Flocking to Affordability

Our carjacking crisis

HORRIFIC! Nets Ignore Liberal DA Giving Trans Rapist a Light Sentence

NPR Publishes Propaganda Piece Supporting Lia Thomas’ ‘Victories’

WashTimes Exposes Left-Wing Group Behind ‘Dark Money’ SCOTUS Pick Push

MSNBC: Russia Preparing to Invade Ukraine, Democrats Hardest Hit

Canada Extends Trudeau’s Emergency Powers… After The Protest Has Ended

Rainbow Media Claims ‘Team LGBTQ’ Took 12th Place In Olympic Medals

Is Canada Becoming North America’s Cuba?  Dennis Prager.

DC National Guard ‘Scrambling’ To Secure Tow Trucks As Freedom Convoy Descends

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Ten years ago, if you had asked the general population, what the difference was between gender-fluid, gender non-conforming, transgender and transsexual, few could have told you. Today, our primary school children can not only answer that question but may find themselves, with or without their and their parents’ knowledge, in class with a “trans kid”. Such is the all pervasive influence of the campaigners who have shaped the teaching on this in our schools.

Gun crimes grab most media attention, while gun use in self-defense gets merely a fraction: experts

Canadian authorities freeze financial assets for those involved in ongoing protests in Ottawa (CNN) Full frontal fascism in Canada, eh.

Canada Freedom Convoy: European Parliament member compares Trudeau to communist ‘dictator’

dScared to be ‘woke’? It’s time for progressives to take a stand in the culture wars (The Guardian)

Canada Moves To Make Asset Freezing Under Emergencies Act Permanent  Time to leave.

Lady Failing at Filling Form Deemed Voter Suppression in Texas By ABC

Trudeau Still Wants Emergency Powers After Clearing Truckers’ Protest  The taste of fascism is sweet.

TRIGGERED? Atlantic’s David Frum Claps Back After Elon Musk Calls Him a ‘Megadouche’  I stand with Elon.

IRS Busted in Mass Surveillance Program

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Public schools have broken a sacred trust. Parents have both the right and responsibility to care for, teach and train their children. When they send them to a public school (or a private one, for that matter) they are allowing that school to teach those children on their behalf. It is a sacred trust. The parent is trusting the school to provide education for the children on behalf of the parent whose job and right it is to bring up their children as they see fit.

It is not up to the educator to decide what kind of person they would like to produce. It is not up to the educator to instill values in their children that are contrary to the wishes of the parents. It is not up to the educator to make the children do something the parent does not want them to do. For educators to do this, as it is being done today, is to break a sacred trust.

People who send their children to ‘Christian’ schools have know this, and acted on that knowledge, for half a century. The Pandemic Panic has brought reality home to those who thought that living in a Ritzy Suburb meant that the local public schools were as safe for People Like Us as private schools would be.

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At least one person was killed and another five were wounded in a shooting during a protest in Portland over police violence. According to preliminary reports from the scene, the shooting took place Saturday night at Normandale Park in the Oregonian city following a “confrontation” between a protester and a nearby homeowner, both of whom were reportedly armed.

Oddly enough, the police apparently didn’t shoot anybody.

The number of homicides in Portland last year surpassed the number in more populous cities such as San Francisco and Boston, and was more than double the number of slayings in nearby Seattle, which has a population of nearly 200K more people.

Doesn’t sound to me as if ‘police violence’ is the problem.

TV Crew Heckled by Ottawa Protestors in MSNBC Segment: ‘F****** Liars!’ (Newsweek)

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg lowers charges in grand larceny case

Hear why right-wing media abruptly stopped covering false Clinton story (CNN) Which it is still doing – the ones who ‘abruptly stopped’ were the Narrative Media.

The Other Aide Entangled in Dem Rep’s Bribery Scandal (Daily Beast)

Susan Collins tries to ‘Trump proof’ the 2024 election — behind Trump’s back  (Washington Post) RINOs assemble!

Washington Post: By the Way, Antifa Is Actually Really Violent

NY Dem Pols Block Social Media Followers  Democracy dies in disdain.

Eric Adams to crack down on rule-breaking on NYC subway with new safety plan

Another effort to tax ‘extreme wealth’ in California is launched in Legislature (L.A.Times) Democrats are incapable of seeing a pile of money without wanting to steal it.

If voters don’t stop it, election deniers could kill American democracy (CNN) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own (NPR) And about time, too.

The never-before-told backstory of Pence’s Jan. 6 argument (Politico) Or at least what they’d like you to believe.

California bill would have citizens enforce weapons ban (Associated Press) Hey, it worked for the Soviets.

Squad politics backfire (Axios)

Woman Injured After Stray Bullet Flies Into San Francisco Restaurant (NBC) Amazing how well those strict gun control laws work. Funny how this sort of thing never happens in Texas.

Newsom Rips Into Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, Calling Them “Propaganda Networks”; Announces New State Unit To Combat Misinformation  For Democrats, anything contrary to the Narrative is ‘misinformation’.

California High School Caves After Students Stage Walkout Over Mask Mandate

At Least 10 States Pondering Over 40 Bills Tightening Voter ID Requirements

MSNBC: Lifting Mask Mandates Tough for Dem Governors Because Liberals Wear Them as ID

UK University Backtracks After Encouraging Staff To Use ‘Neopronouns’, ‘Emojiself’, And ‘Catgender’ Terms

MSNBC: GOP ‘Syndicate’ Just Trying to Raise Money With Durham Story

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What does online school actually look like? It’s an impossible balancing act that’s ruining kids and parents alike. And it’s not okay.

Changes in new Texas law angers voters (CNN) Especially those in charge of Democrat vote fraud.

How the right embraced the false claim that Hillary Clinton ‘spied’ on President Donald Trump (Washington Post) False claim!

State lawmaker introduces bill that would make NYC expand composting program to every home  Time to leave.

Canadian Freedom Convoy organizer arrested in Ottawa

Feinstein plummets, Harris underwater in new California poll (Politico)

Biden’s $770B Pentagon Budget Proposal Denounced As “Absurd” By Progressive Dems

Society Vs State: Canada Reveals The Core Conflict Of Our Age

“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about research or merit.”

Early Front-Runner Emerges for 2022 ‘Media Gaslighter of the Year’ Award

Why Does Trudeau’s Protest Prohibition Order Exempt Refugees, Immigrants, & Ethnic Minorities?

‘Hillary’s Right’: Supposed Conservative Scarborough Embraces Clinton’s Big-Government Agenda  Is there anyone in the world who thinks that Joe Scarborough is a conservative?

Authoritarian Chic? NY Times Supportively Floats Trudeau Deploying Troops on Protests

‘Mainstream’ Media Hides Hillary’s Hackers

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A band of Native American activists and eco-extremists left a crew of pipeline workers deeply shaken – while causing millions of dollars in damage – at a Coastal GasLink pipeline work site, according to a news report in the Vancouver Sun.

Security at the site called for help after a band of about 20 people, some wielding axes and other weapons, broke through a fence protecting the site. At one point, the attackers allegedly tried to light one of the vehicles on fire…while a crew of workers was inside.

Canada is quickly becoming a Turd World nation.

The Dictator Next Door

San Francisco school board recall puts Mayor London Breed under huge pressure: ‘Voters will hold her accountable’ (S.F. Chronicle()

GOP culture war attacks ‘alarmingly potent,’ DCCC warns (Politico) Alarmingly!

S.F. police chief: Officers who stood by and watched dispensary burglary were sent back to training (S.F. Chronicle) Not fired, mind you, just ‘sent back to training’.

LA County DA George Gascon says prosecutorial policies based on ‘science’ amid renewed criticism  Science!

Election officials are on the frontlines of defending democracy. They didn’t sign up for this. (Politico) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

1 Shot in Grocery Store Parking Lot in San Francisco: Police Boy, those strict gun control laws are really effective, aren’t they?

California gas prices just hit a record high. $5 gas could come soon (CNN)

Justin Trudeau’s phoney dictatorship

Meet the California Dem Who Invited the CCP Into His Local Classrooms

‘Red-Handed’ Author Peter Schweizer Reveals How China Captured America’s Elites

Fact Check: Fact-Checkers Falsely Claim They Are Fact-Checkers

Stelter Screeches at ‘Explosion of False Claims’ from John Durham Filing

NBC FINALLY Discovers Durham, Touts Denials From Clinton & Sussmann

School District Just Banned CNN From Classrooms

The CIA and the New Dialect of Power

MSNBC Trashes ‘Dangerous Disinformation’ From Conservatives on Durham Filing

Victor Davis Hanson.

Hillary Clinton’s never-ending shenanigans in 2015 to 2016 could be summarized as an attempted slow-motion coup.

Four years of national hysteria, a divided nation, and dangerous new tensions with Russia were some of the wages of Clinton’s machinations.

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A mom of four children in Prince William County, Virginia, says security guards blocked parents from entering Wednesday’s school board meeting and physically removed another mother from even entering the building.

Merianne Jensen, whose Feb. 2 speech to the school board against mask mandates went viral, arrived an hour early to attend Wednesday’s meeting. But she and other parents were blocked from entering the meeting room and instructed to sit in a foyer.

“They didn’t want to hear our voice,” Jensen told The Daily Signal after leaving the meeting Wednesday night.

It was there that Jensen saw another mother being forcibly removed by school security guards. She posted the video on Twitter, where it received tens of thousands of views.

Ocasio-Cortez asked if US will be a democracy in 10 years. Hear her answer. (CNN)

Some of Neil Young’s music quietly stays at Spotify amid Joe Rogan protest  Virtue-signaling is one thing, but let’s not get in the way of the money.

Tulsi Gabbard: Durham findings shows mainstream media worked ‘to undermine democracy’

Pelosi, other stock-trading pols could avoid capital gains taxes under Warren proposal  Senator Umbrage only hates rich people who aren’t Democrats.

The conservative case for nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court (The Hill) As if The Hill would have a clue about what ‘the conservative case’ was for anything.

Nets Ignore Leftist Gun Control Advocate Charged with Attempted Murder.

North Korean Authorities Arrest Dance Tutor, Students For Practicing “Capitalist” Dance Moves: Report

Democrats Ask YouTube To Ban Ghost Gun Instructional Videos.

Zucker Lover Resigns from CNN as New Details of Alleged Cuomo Assault Surface

Detroit to Blow $1.9 Million on Electric Road

Rich CNN Host: ‘Economy Is Doing Well,’ Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes

Even San Francisco Is Giving the Boot to Liberal School Board Members

Kimmel Mocks Fox Viewers’ ‘Soft, Oatmeal-like Brains’ For Caring About Durham Story  I was about to say the same thing about Kimmel. With more reason, I suspect.

Canada Goes Tyrannical

Unemployed San Francisco School Board Member Takes To Street With ‘Will Abuse Children 4 Food’ Sign  Babylon Bee.

Nets Refuse to Cover EMBARRASSING Recall Landslide Against Woke S.F. School Board

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He will be sorely missed.

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Binyamin Appelbaum, the lead writer on economics and business for the New York Times editorial board, is by all accounts a union man. In his recent essay on “The Power in Numbers”, he concluded with a rousing demand: the Government must “protect the rights of Americans and ensure every worker is free to seek strength in numbers”.

On paper, his piece had all the hallmarks of an inspiring call to arms: it was illustrated with a photo gallery of smiling workers; it took a swipe at Amazon and Starbucks; it celebrated how the “movement retains pockets of strength”. It was inspiring, that is, until we remind ourselves that the NYT is one of the most the aggressively anti-union newspapers in the media — an attitude that trickles all the way down from the dynasty that still controls the paper to this day.

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I wrote here about what I called “a Princeton-Morgan Stanley joint venture in discrimination.” My reference was to Morgan Stanley’s Freshman Enhancement Program, which is available only to Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and/or LGBTQ college freshmen. All other freshmen need not apply. Princeton participates in the program.

Today, former White House Counsel Boyden Gray sent a letter on behalf of the Project on Fair Representation to Morgan Stanley and Princeton University. It warns them that the Freshman Enhancement Program is illegal. The Project on Fair Representation is led by Edward Blum who also leads Students for Fair Admissions, the plaintiff in the discrimination suit by Asian-Americans against Harvard.

Gray’s letter is here. It states that “while the program proclaims to serve laudable goals. . .the use of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation discrimination to advance these goals is blatantly illegal and immoral.”

As it undoubtedly is.

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A lawyer for French teacher Peter Vlaming asked Tuesday that the Virginia Supreme Court take up the case, Vlaming v. West Point School Board.

“No government can force any Virginian to express messages that violate their core beliefs,” Chris Schandevel told The Daily Signal after arguing for Vlaming before Virginia’s highest court.

Schandevel, a lawyer with the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, asked the court “to reinstate the lawsuit that [Vlaming] filed in state trial court,” which dismissed the case without explanation last August.

As previously reported by The Daily Signal, the West Point School Board fired Vlaming in December 2018 after he declined to use male pronouns to refer to a female student who identified as a transgender male.

ZMan does a deep dive.

Many people have noted the similarities, as far as practical application, between 20th century fascism and modern managerialism. The starting place for the comparison is the marriage of corporate power and state power. Instead of harnessing the two in the name of socialism and nationalism, the two sides exist within the managerial state in the furtherance of technological and financial capitalism. The system is also decorated with the language of Western liberalism.

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“This is about keeping Canadians safe, protecting people’s jobs,” Mr Trudeau told a news conference on Monday.
He said the police would be given “more tools” to imprison or fine protesters and protect critical infrastructure.
Mr Trudeau told reporters the legislation would be applied temporarily and in a highly specific manner.
Critics have noted that the prime minister voiced support for farmers in India who blocked major highways to New Delhi for a year in 2021, saying at the time: “Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest.”
Mr Trudeau’s invoking of the Emergencies Act comes as demonstrations across Canada enter their third week.

Mark Ruffalo pledges support for illegal immigrants pledging not to work on Valentine’s Day

Climate crisis and systemic inequities drive push to reform California water laws (L.A. Times)

Eminem kneels during Super Bowl 2022 halftime show after rumors of NFL controversy Never too old to posture.

Palin v. The New York Times trial highlights the ‘worst possible scenario’ for journalists (CNN) Yup – being held accountable for their lies.

Gov. Kathy Hochul repeats ugly Cuomo-esque history with dark money

Chicago woman is carjacking victim for second time BRAAAAAAAINS!

Clinton Campaign Lawyer Gave ‘Sensitive’ Trump Data to CIA, Special Counsel Claims

“Large, Violent, Destructive” Crowds Take To The Streets Following Super Bowl: LAPD

The Same Krugman Who Said He Was ‘Wrong’ on Inflation Now Says 40-Year High Inflation ‘Not a Crisis’

Shameless CBS Strategizes on How to Help Biden Plot Midterms Comeback

Violence Descends on Los Angeles During Post-Super Bowl Rioting, Looting

We’re Still Waiting, Washington Post, for Your Story on Clinton Spying

5 Things to Know About Special Counsel’s Finding That Clinton Campaign Spied on Trump, White House

GW Students Debate Campus Censorship After Removal of Posters Critical of Chinese Communist Party

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Imagine you were planning a conspiracy to limit the number of doctors in America. Certainly, you’d make sure to have a costly, lengthy credentialing system. You would also tell politicians that America has too many doctors already. That way, you could purposefully constrain the number of medical-school students. You might freeze or slash funding for residencies and medical scholarships. You’d fight proposals to allow nurses to do the work of physicians. And because none of this would stop foreign-trained doctors from slipping into the country and committing the crime of helping sick people get better, you’d throw in some rules that made it onerous for immigrant doctors, especially from neighboring countries Mexico and Canada, to do their job.

Okay, I think you’ve caught on by this point. America has already done all of this.

Russia has surrounded Ukraine on three sides. Here’s where an invasion could be launched (CNN)

Newspaper headlines: Russia’s ‘false flag’ plot, and a ‘whiff of Munich’ (BBC)

A police reform can’t wait any longer (CNN)

Minneapolis rioters vandalize buildings, block traffic after Amir Locke death

Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill is cruel and dangerous (CNN)

Washington Post’s Fairy Tale on Pennsylvania Voter Fraud

Shoplifting Reaches Crisis Proportions

Oakland Truckers Overwhelmed By Looming CARB Rule, Supply Chain Obstacles

An Instance of Fraud In the Public Schools

Another Day in the (War-zone) Neighborhood: More Seattle-area Chaos

Free Speech In The UK?

Stephanopoulos Ignores Pelosi’s Reluctance for Congressional Stock Trading Ban

Sunday Shows Despicably Ignore Report That Clinton Spied on Trump

Durham’s Latest

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Rebecca Brannon describes herself as an independent photojournalist covering Minnesota politics, protests, and riots. Rebecca has the nerve to do much of her reporting from the inside. If I have the chronology right, Rebecca got inside the “two hour black bloc Antifa protest” on Lake Street in Minneapolis, and the perpetrators are not happy about it. They don’t really want the exposure.

Say this for the Star Tribune. The paper’s nonfeasance is appreciated. Indeed, the Star Tribune’s nonfeasance is a critical component of the bizarre hellworld that Minneapolis has become.

New Texas voting rules causing high number of ballot rejections (The Guardian)

Beto O’Rourke flip-flops again on confiscating AR-15s as polls show him trailing Texas Gov. Abbott

‘We have a project’: QAnon followers eye swing state election official races (The Guardian) QAnon! Followers!

The Gen X activists upending Democratic politics (Politico)

3 San Francisco school board Democrats to face recall election Tuesday

‘Targeted Assassinations’ Coming if Civil War Breaks Out: Adam Kinzinger (Newsweek)

Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions (Axios)

To Fight Wokeness, the GOP Should Embrace Immigrant Voters

Biden Orders Seizure Of $7 Billion In Afghan Funds, With Half Going To 9/11 Victims

ABA Forcing Wokeness On Law Schools

“It’s A Mess” – Shocking Image Reveals Baltimore Parking Garage Transformed Into Make-Shift Morgue

“An Absolute Mad Rush”: Californians Confess Why They’re Fleeing The State

ATF Tries To Ban Forced Reset Triggers As People Begin To 3D Print At Home

CNN Hits Apathetic ‘White Moderates’ Amid ‘Autocracy and Even Fascism’

Minneapolis Circles the Drain

Arizona Legislators Propose Communist-Style ‘Community Schools’

NBC News President Claims We’re ‘Nonpartisan,’ His Employees Didn’t Get the Memo

Durham: Clinton Allies Spied On The Executive Office Of The President

Can Alaska save democracy? (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

NYC Rite Aid plagued by string of thefts finally closes its doors

CNN’s King Frets Bad Biden Poll: His Successes Aren’t ‘Sinking in Out in America’

Ontario Premier Orders GiveSendGo To Freeze Funds For Anti-Mandate Protesters

Maryland State Senator Pushes For Right To Carry As Baltimore Spirals Out Of Control

San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide

The Mystery Of The Migrant Kids The Feds Are Spiriting Into The U.S. Interior

New Canadian Law Could Send Parents to Jail for Not Affirming Gender Identity

Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill Hits Target: Gender Ideology Harms Kids

Congressional Group To Host Event Celebrating ‘Renowned Activist’ Angela Davis

NBA Wants No Part of Freedom: China Critic Bounced Out of the League

How to Die in Philadelphia

Hakeem Jeffries Wanted a Massive Tax Cut for the Rich. Now, He Says They Aren’t ‘Paying Their Fair Share’

Communist Domination in Turtle Bay

ALERT: Hillary Clinton Is Back, Baby

San Diego County School Retracts “Wheel Of Privilege” Teaching Tool

Morgan Wallen’s crowd chants ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’ at packed Madison Square Garden show

‘Worst 1st Year of a President’: Nets Ignore Apocalyptic Biden Polling

Biden’s New DoE Hire Is A Queer Activist Who Brags About “Puppy Play” Gimp-Kink

The Biden Administration Thinks You’re Stupid

CNN Admits Most Americans Can’t Find One Good Thing About Biden Presidency As Approval Rating Plummets

CNN Paints a ‘Grim Portrait of Biden’s Unhappy America’

Biden Admin Already Backtracking On ISIS Leader Raid Story Details

Energy Department Blames Focus on ‘Climate Crisis’ for Ethics Oversight

Kamala Harris Seen Cackling Uncontrollably, Likely Meaning WWIII Has Begun  Babylon Bee.

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“It really has required a lot of soul-searching, a lot of reading of the literature to try to think of what were plausible reasons that might account for this.”

And by “this,” she means the outcome of a study that lasted more than a decade. It included 2,990 low-income children in Tennessee who applied to free, public prekindergarten programs. Some were admitted by lottery, and the others were rejected, creating the closest thing you can get in the real world to a randomized, controlled trial — the gold standard in showing causality in science.

Farran and her co-authors at Vanderbilt University followed both groups of children all the way through sixth grade. At the end of their first year, the kids who went to pre-K scored higher on school readiness — as expected.

But after third grade, they were doing worse than the control group. And at the end of sixth grade, they were doing even worse. They had lower test scores, were more likely to be in special education, and were more likely to get into trouble in school, including serious trouble like suspensions.

Joel Kotkin.

Enthusiasts of “the new economy” long cherished the notion that it would be different from the unenlightened, sluggish, and piggish older one. Yet our economy seems increasingly to resemble not some hippy capitalist utopia, but the deeply concentrated economy of pre-war Japan.

Be warned: for influencers, social justice is no more than a branding device (The Guardian)

Right-wing conspiracies have a new target: a tool that fights actual voter fraud (NPR)

GoFundMe And How The Left Came To Despise The Working Class

ABC, CBS Ignore Pelosi Dragged into Supporting Stock Trading Ban

ADL Senior VP: ‘Kudos To My Former Boss, George Soros’

Blumenthal Bought Robinhood Shares as He Called for Congress To Investigate GameStop Trading Frenzy

School Assigns Seventh Graders to Read Novel Glamorizing Illegal Immigration

Soros DA’s Office Hired Registered Sex Offender As Paralegal

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Mexican authorities said they had discovered a new killing field in the border state of Tamaulipas, just south of the Texas border, an area known for widespread territorial disputes between drug cartels, according to Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles.

Hammer tech.

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There are many reasons why an industry can become concentrated within a narrow geographic region. Externally generated increasing returns to scale i.e. a firm becomes more productive simply by being near other firms producing the same thing, is an observation that goes all the way back to Alfred Marshall. That’s the story of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, not to mention a million other micro-industries. The story of journalism, however, is different, because it is not the capital or labor market opportunities, but specifically the labor itself that is concentrated in a narrow location. The “Writer living in Brooklyn” Twitter/LinkedIn/Muckrack bio is a cliche at this point for a reason. But why are they all in Brooklyn? And why do I get the sense that I can summarize at least half of them as White children of the upper-middle class who paid full-freight for an English-adjacent degree from an expensive liberal arts college?

California’s no-bid contract with Kaiser triggers concerns

Democratic Sen. Manchin endorses Republican Sen. Murkowski for re-election

AOC heading to Texas to campaign against Democratic colleague

S.F. planned to compel more people into drug and mental health treatment. So far, only two have been helped (S.F. Chronicle)

Need a Laugh? Guest Says CNN ‘Part of Firewall That Saved Democracy’

“How I Survived a Chinese ‘Reeducation’ Camp” by Gulbahar Haitiwaji

“A Disaster In Plain Sight” – Why San Francisco Is Doing Nothing To Curb Brutal Fentanyl Crisis

Xi-Putin Olympics Summit Is Explicitly – And Primarily – Anti-US

Nobody Cares: Olympics Opening Ceremony Hits The Trees, Dies

(Almost) Everything Wrong with the Ruling Class in One Picture

Now That’s a Darn Shame. Nobody Watched ‘Genocide Olympics’ Opening Ceremony

ESPN Panelist Compared U.S. Cops, Voter ID To Chinese Oppression  Uh, not even close.

How China Spies on Nations Throughout Western Hemisphere

EU lawmakers unfazed by Meta’s threat that it would pull out of Europe